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South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Letter to World Bank from Social Movement Groups Opposed to Dilution of Safeguards in Favour of Businesses and Violation of Community Rights
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India: Gay celebs cite right to life, move Supreme Court against Sec 377 - Petition sent to the Chief Justice of India
29 June 2016In what could lend more heft to the fight for their rights, leading lights of the LGBT community have moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of Section 377 of IPC to protect their sexual preferences, saying these are part and parcel of the right to life.
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Pakistan: Funding bigotry | Zahid Hussain
29 June 2016The KP government’s funding of a radical seminary raises questions about the PTI’s adherence to NAP.
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India: Act against the hindutva vigilante ’Gurgaon Gau Raksha Dal’ for assault and violation of fundamental rights of two cattle transporters - Statement by PUDR
29 June 2016PUDR expresses outrage at the barbaric incident of 10th June where, in a horrific example of discrimination and violation of dignity, two men - Rizwan and Mukhtiar - accused of transporting beef from Mewat to Delhi, were forced to eat cow dung by members of the Gurgaon Gau Raksha Dal. A video has surfaced showing the two being threatened, and forced to eat panchgavya, a mixture of cow dung, cow urine and other bovine products.
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India-Pakistan: ’On the Partition issue, Jinnah and Ambedkar were on the same page’ - Interview with Venkat Dhulipala
29 June 2016’Both thought it was a good remedy to resolve the communal problem in India’ and that ’transfer or exchanges of populations was inevitable and necessary’.
